Also embroidress. [f. as prec. + -ESS.] A female embroiderer; a woman who embroiders.
1723. Lond. Gaz., No. 6171/7. Emma Paine…, Embroideress.
1782. Lady Llanover, in Mrs. Delany’s Corr., Ser. II. III. 80. To apologize for his niece’s being an embroidress by profession.
1867. Freeman, Norm. Conq. (ed. 3), I. vi. 440. The skilful needles of English embroideresses.
